Example sentences of "while the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , both the Minister for Internal Affairs and the Ministers of Culture in the Lander can take independent decisions , while the Russian part of the commission is a consultative body and can only make recommendations which are subsequently ratified at State level . |
| 2 | In Britain the founding of the Board of Trade Journal in 1886 did something to improve the hitherto often dilatory and irregular publication of consular reports , while the Russian government published such material regularly from the 1890s . |
| 3 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc 's Autodesk Russia has started distribution of the latest version of AutoCAD in Russian : the company is planning a Russian road show to demonstrate the new product ; the price of the English version of AutoCAD 12 is $5,000 while the Russian version will cost in the region of $1,400 to $1,600 ; upgrades will cost $500 . |
| 4 | A sudden reminder to the world that while the Russian Bear may be slinking back into its cave , the American Eagle can still scream through the skies , is one thing . |
| 5 | Other Ministers argued that , while the moral issue might be a matter of personal conviction , the Government as such had a duty to advise Parliament on the probable consequences of abolishing the death penalty . |
| 6 | A favourite device of Borges , for example , is to toy with the reader by sprinkling his fictions with references to real people and places , a technique used to good effect in ‘ Tlön , Uqbar , Orbis Tertius ’ , whose realistic trappings lend credibility to the story of a non-existent world which is the reverse of our own , while the fictional world in its turn calls into question the reality of the one in which we live . |
| 7 | Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long . |
| 8 | While the stated reason for moving to the resort was the desire to bring up one 's children in a healthy place , the less readily acknowledged reason was to ‘ better oneself ’ . |
| 9 | It will be noted that the multi-bedroom has a WC and washing compartment with direct access to a lobby for patients ' use while the remaining WC and washing compartments and bathroom should be located so as to be of easy access from the single rooms . |
| 10 | One man to come out of cover , to draw his fire , while the remaining operative pumped out enough shots to virtually guarantee a hit . |
| 11 | Finally , while the agricultural industry has greatly increased its productivity since the end of the war , it has accomplished this with a much diminished labour force . |
| 12 | In general , the optimum pH is 6.5–7.5 , while the optimum temperature is between 10°C and 35°C . |
| 13 | Gemayel became president of war-torn Lebanon on 23 August 1982 , while the Israeli army were still occupying large parts of the country right up to the outskirts of Beirut . |
| 14 | ( Indeed , underreporting of cases may be a reason for the relatively low rural miscarriage ratio in Table 12 , which is lower than the ratio of the " other urban " places , while the still birth ratio that is based on complete registration of late fetal deaths was on the same level — 7.5 per 1,000 live births — in both rural and " other urban " areas . ) . |
| 15 | The Forward Trust Belfast League Senior quartet of League champion Derek Weir , Wai Sun Chan , Willie Cherry and Liz Cheevers has a winning look about it as it faces the Dublin and District League while the Junior quartet of John Fall , Harry Finlay , Andrew Gibson and Sharon Ferguson , drawn from division two , hope to maintain their winning run against Dublin . |
| 16 | But while the melancholy air and the mannered , somehow archaistic appearance of much of the work of his so-called ‘ blue period ’ remind one of some of Gauguin 's painting , it was not until several years later , in the work executed during the year preceding the Demoiselles , that Picasso 's work became bolder and more direct , in some cases one might justifiably say more primitive , in appearance . |
| 17 | Andrew Carnegie , millionaire-to-be , believed his ‘ optimistic nature ’ and wit ‘ must have been inherited ’ from his ‘ delightful old masquerading grandfather ; ’ while the future feminist Hannah Mitchell could see her own dogged persistence in the extraordinary working energy of the octogenarian grandmother who was ‘ the delight and terror of my young days ’ |
| 18 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 19 | While the civil war raged , the English government could not maintain even the rather shadowy control it had exercised previously . |
| 20 | The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty . |
| 21 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |
| 22 | Here the secondary process does not just operate through discourse , but is structured like discourse , while the primary process does not only discharge energy through the use of perceptual memories , but is structured like a ‘ perceptual field ’ . |
| 23 | While the primary virtue is the ability efficiently to get results , the dependence of senior staff on the man in the field for a continuous supply of information also places a premium on his knowledge . |
| 24 | In the segment not containing A-tracts , ( Figure 3 and Figure 4 ) the relative cutting activity was maximal in the C-rich part of the 5'GGGCCC3' motif , while the minimal cutting rate was detected in the 3' region of the 5'CTAGAG3' motif . |
| 25 | While the electoral strength of Communism was still infinitesimal in contrast to that of the Labour Party , it was greater than for the past decade . |
| 26 | While the volcanic nature of the country means much of the arable area is intensely fertile , earthquakes , typhoons and other natural disasters are frequent . |
| 27 | However , while the eight-year war was under way Iraq was receiving substantial financial assistance from Kuwait and hence never fully pressed the claim . |
| 28 | Thus after the Christianization of Ireland , the priestly function was removed to a quite different kind of order , increasingly employing writing , while the bardic function , still often oral , entered a different and more specialized relationship to the aristocratic families . |
| 29 | Repeat and variation are handled with the subtlety of a virtuoso , while the coherent wholeness of her work denies all accusations of facile artistry . |
| 30 | By contrast , the annual baseball World Series pulled in 20 per cent of the potential U.S. television audience , while the Super Bowl pulled in a whopping 40 per cent share . |